History Quiz Question 1

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"(Solanum tuberosum), one of some 150 tuber-bearing species of the genus Solanum (family Solanaceae). The potato (common potato, white potato, or Irish potato), considered by most botanists a native of the Peruvian-Bolivian Andes, is one of the world's main food crops, differing from others in that the edible part of the plant is a tuber (i.e., the swollen end of an underground stem).

The potato plant is an herbaceous annual, 50–100 cm (20–40 inches) high. Leaf arrangement is spiral; leaves are compound and 20–30 cm long, consisting of a terminal leaflet and two to four pairs of leaflets, each 6–10 cm long."

( Encyclopædia Britannica)

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